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forecast stinks for most of the week.
hopefully they can get these games in somehow rather than have another rainout.
wonder if maybe they stuck with the 6 man rotation in small part because of all this damn rain.

[1] yeah, could be a bunch of double headers coming up this month. But I think the extended rotation has more to do with preserving arms and other creaky bodyparts, and figuring out what they have for the playoffs. It's hard to say who should be in the postseason rotation beyond CC and Ivan at this point.

Update, 7:50: Still waiting. By the way, according to weather.com, there’s a window between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. where there’s just a 15-20 percent chance of rain. Seriously. Then it goes back up to 100 percent. There’s a varying chance of rain throughout the day and night tomorrow.

[67] G'nite Ken. But we ain't so hardcore.. thelarmis wakes up at 2pm EST and is only now getting into his studio.. cult of basebaal is watching the palm trees sway at 10pm outside Hotel California, drink in hand..and I'm counting down the time till Guinness O'Clock here at ACME, INC, Tokyo branch.

and if Buck is really the only person keeping this game alive he can seriously go fuck himself, and it is so in keeping with the kind of massive tool this guy has been for his entire managerial career.

Remember this is the same guy who used to hold Spring Training meetings on the proper way to wear a sanitary sock and once started a public feud with Ken Griffey, Jr. over his hat being backwards. Fuck this guy.

Don't know whether this is a matter of conditioning, but if Phil is going to keep dropping 4-5 mph off his fastball from pitch 1 to pitch 100, he's probably not long for the starting rotation in his career ...

Btw, you guys see Robinson Cano is on Twitter? I'm such a geekboy fan, just followed him when I saw this tweet: "Whats up twitter, who was watching today? Like my grand slam huh? 24 homeruns, 3 grand slams! Thanks to god, my family and my fans"

[126] If you are watching on gameday, it's not telling the whole story. Ball was thrown away into foul territory, Posada thought about 2B and turned towards second (in foul territory), but thought better of it. Anyway, they tagged him while he ambled back to first for the "out"

Finally got home. Just really puzzled by a few things:
1. WTF was Joe Girardi thinking that Hector Noesi who is supposedly a starter can't get lefties out??? Seriously, bringing in Logan was really that important??? At least I was close enough to the action that I think Girardi heard me yell "Over-managing"

2. How is Jorge so dense? He is a catcher. In theory, catchers are really supposed to know the game and yet Jorge manages to consistently do knuckle-headed things.

3. Did we really need to see Robertson and Rivera pitch today??? Lohud quoted Girardi as saying that Robertson was unavailable today and yet he pitched.

4. Why wasn't the game called after 5 innings? They stopped the game after the top of the 4th and I was half headed towards the exit. I stopped when I saw them bringing dirt out while the umps huddled. The game was getting slippery and I was waiting for Cano or Granderson to get hurt and kill the season.

5. Yankees really don't appreciate their fans very much. They give away a free ticket to anyone with tonight's ticket. That's to assuage the fans who didn't show up today. What about rewarding the ones that showed up? Instead we were told by stadium security that we couldn't move up at first. Finally the Yanks relented near the end of the 1st inning. And God forbid that a 4 hour wait would be enough to let fans sit in the "Legends seats." All the while, the Yanks continued to sell $4 hot chocolates and $5 water at the stadium at 2 in the morning.

6. When did the PC police start working at the Stadium? Security told one fan to "not be so vulgar" or be kicked out. Really??? Vulgarity is an issue now? The fan had been alluding to Baltimore's 3rd base coach Willie Randolph's past endorsement of Subway's sandwiches. She merely said that while he touted the 6inch sub, she suspects he is really a footlong. Explicit no but racy definitely. Apparently enough to get the PC police at the Stadium to silence her. At least the "asshole" chant was still permitted. For now.

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1.The Binder knows all. Trust in the Binder.
2.It's one reason why we love the big lug!
3. Inexplicable.
4. Inexplicable.
5. Just noticing that now? :) Yankees havn't cared about their fans in years. Last time I was at the old Satdium they wouldn't let me in with a backpack because of "security". Told me to go across the street to a bar and pay $5 to store it there during the game. I told them to Fuck Off and went back downtown to watch in a bar. Havn't been back since.
6. Ridiculous. It's ok for them to ram their military-worship down everyone's throats but god forbid someone yells out a mild heckle. (Though why heckle Willie, we love him!)

But dude, don't boycott the Stadium. No matter what they do, there ain't nuthin' in the world like a live Yankee game in a full house at the Stadium. Don't deprive that from Jazz Jr. just because of some shit-ass policies.

Hell, in the old days the fans used to exit through the outfield and Mickey nearly got mugged a few times. Got punched in the face more than once. As Travis Bickel said, "This town is a cesspool."

[161] Whoa, Old Man Steinbrenner (George's dad) was a Nazi supporter? Never heard that before..

I know about the experience, I just hate the fact that fans are treated with such contempt. And that the moat seats get first-class service while us upper-deck rabble do not. You know how incredible the service is here, my 1000 Yen yakitori joint has better service than United Airlines for $1000..

Well,just don't let the bastards keep you away. I walk around during the Star Spangled (which my direct ancestor Mr. Key wrote, BTW, so I'll sit or talk or do whatever the fuck I want while it's playing, I talk during the Kat Smith break, if I can't walk around, and I chat up the ushers to get them to loosen up.